{"id":17595,"date":"2014-04-23T00:46:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T04:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=17595"},"modified":"2014-04-23T00:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T04:46:56","slug":"dorian-nakamoto-gets-23000-payout-over-bitcoin-invention-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/cryptocurrency\/dorian-nakamoto-gets-23000-payout-over-bitcoin-invention-saga.php","title":{"rendered":"Dorian Nakamoto gets $23,000 payout over Bitcoin invention saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>        Top three mobile application threats  <\/p>\n<p>    The California man who says he was mistakenly identified as the    inventor of Bitcoin is accepting a $23,000 gift from backers of    the cryptocurrency.  <\/p>\n<p>    Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto said that he will be joining the ranks    of Bitcoin users after receiving a wallet of 47.925 bitcoins    (valued at roughly $23,300) from members of the community by    way of a fundraising effort.  <\/p>\n<p>    The 64-year-old former programmer found himself thrust into the    public light earlier this year when Newsweek claimed him to be the \"Satoshi Nakamoto\"    who first developed and introduced the Bitcoin cryptocurrency,    which at its peak was valued at over $1,100 and still trades at    over $400 through online exchanges.  <\/p>\n<p>    The real-life identity of the person(s) behind the name    \"Satoshi Nakamoto\" has been a closely-guarded secret, and with    good reason: it is believed that the Bitcoin wallets associated    with the persona are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  <\/p>\n<p>    Since the report was first released, Dorian Nakamoto has    denied the claims, stating that while he    has a background in mathematics and coding, he had never heard    of Bitcoin and did not even have a working internet connection    in his home. Shortly after the release of the report, Dorian    hired a lawyer to help defend his name in    the matter.  <\/p>\n<p>    In response, Bitcoin backers led by Blockchain chief security    officer Andreas Antonopoulos began a fundraising effort on    Dorian's behalf. That campaign brought 1,969 total donations to    top off at a final balance of 47.92501973 BTC.  <\/p>\n<p>    Even if he's not the creator of the cryptocurrency, it appears    that Nakamoto will be getting a nice chunk of cash from    Bitcoin. In a video posted by Antonopoulos, Nakamoto thanked    the fundraisers, reaffirmed his denial of the Newsweek    story and vowed to use the fund to become an active member of    the Bitcoin community.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        High performance access to file storage  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/04\/23\/dorian_nakamoto_gets_23000_payout_over_bitcoin_invention_saga\/\/RS=^ADA9N0APTqUirPiosMMJJ2U74Vpn28-\" title=\"Dorian Nakamoto gets $23,000 payout over Bitcoin invention saga\">Dorian Nakamoto gets $23,000 payout over Bitcoin invention saga<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Top three mobile application threats The California man who says he was mistakenly identified as the inventor of Bitcoin is accepting a $23,000 gift from backers of the cryptocurrency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}